The gondoliere didn't sing and he didn't say a word.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death on the Caribbean] Reference

I went straight to the head of the line and approached one of the gondoliere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death on the Caribbean] Reference

I was taken by the absurdity of a boat large enough that it could have it's own canal and serenading gondoliere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death on the Caribbean] Reference

I couldn't help thinking that the gondolas looked like coffins, especially at night with the Grand Canal lit up, the boats appearing black and the faces of the gondoliere skeletal in the confusing play of light and shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death on the Caribbean] Reference

The consul appealed to the English Resident, John Murray, who wrote an angry letter to the Government, complaining of this treatment; 'La carità della nobile donna,' he says, 'verso la moglie del gondoliere merita senza dubbio gran lode, ma il sottoscritto s'imagina che l'avvocato più scaltro si troverebbe bene intrigato di produrre una legge o esempio per incaricare l'Ambasciatore Inglese di questa carità.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference

One moonlit evening she heard an old gondoliere challenge a younger one to alternate with him the stanzas of the Gerusalemme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs Shelley]